LSI Survey Results: The Community Agrees To Form A Football Mafia Task Force

The football mafia task force was formed by the National Police, but was disbanded in August 2020. (Instagram)

The results of a poll released by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) revealed that the public agreed to form a Football Mafia Task Force at the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) to eradicate the practice of the football mafia in the country.

"A total of 94.1 percent of the public agree with PSSI's policy to form a Football Mafia Task Force," said LSI Executive Director Djayadi Hanan delivering the results of a survey in an online broadcast monitored by Antara in Jakarta, Sunday.

Previously, Djayadi stated that from the results of his survey, the public was satisfied with the performance of PSSI under the leadership of Erick Thohir, who is currently the general chairman. Departing from this satisfaction, the public hopes that PSSI can bring outstanding Indonesian football and existing football problems will soon be resolved.

The problems in football in question are the practice of the football mafia and the professionalism in PSSI which has long been considered negative by the community.

LSI also conducts surveys based on age, ethnicity, education level, profession or employment, male or female. All of them support if PSSI eradicates the football mafia in Indonesia.

"But anyone who knows about this issue, the support is very high for the policy to be implemented," said Djayadi.

Based on the LSI survey, it is known that only 34 percent of Indonesians know that PSSI management is currently working on eradicating the football mafia through the Match Fixing Task Force or the football mafia. Meanwhile, 66 percent of Indonesians do not know about the policy.

If it is elaborated in more detail, the issue of eradicating the football mafia is also only known by urban communities who have upper middle income and high education.

However, although the village community and the lower middle income community are not aware of the existence of this policy in the PSSI management, all of them support the eradication of the football mafia.

In fact, this support also came from people who claimed they did not like football and from those who did not favor football as a sport that is usually done.

Based on the punishment that deserves to be given to the perpetrators of the football mafia practice, the maximum is imprisonment with 38.1 percent, then no longer being involved in football 29.5 percent, and the third is a 9.7 percent fine.

"So our society tends to agree that the football mafia really has to be eradicated with severe punishment," said Djayadi.